Sustainable Dance Club?
An oxymoron you say? Well maybe not anymore!
I read a cool little article in the latest Springwise Newsletter about The Critical Mass event in Rotterdam (Netherlands) - dedicated to the concept of ‘the sustainable dance club’.
This concept has developed via the partnership between Enviu (an environmental NGO for young people) and Döll (Dutch architectural firm).
Some of the cool features proposed for these eco-friendly clubs include an energy-generating dance floor (generates power from the dancing of energetic clubbers), toilets fed with rain water, and rooftop gardens.
Here is a blurb from The Critical Mass page (on Enviu’s website):
The concept of the Sustainable Dance Club gives meaning to sustainability within construction, entrepreneurship and clubbing for a young and trendsetting target group. Enviu and Döll are cooperating with the technical University of Delft, Off_Corso, the Development Board of Rotterdam and several experts within sustainable entrepreneurship and the creative industry (see also the partners below). For us, sustainable entrepreneurship is about making profit by minimizing the environmental and social impact of your company or even contribute to a solution for such an issue. It is all about balancing the three core elements of our society: people, profit and planet to be able to live in a future sustainable world. Doing this alone will be quite difficult. Co-operation based on a win-win situation is an important condition of sustainable entrepreneurship. Feel free to join us or contact us for more information.
Sounds great to me! Hopefully this idea will eventually spread to North America!
Here is a video (from YouTube) adverstising the energy-generating dance floor:
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Written by Bentley on October 17th, 2006 with
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